Category: Commentary

Why coalitions among NE militant groups won’t work

By Kula Saikia Chronic attacks of the insurgency virus for decades has made the people of northeast apparently immune to…

7 years ago

Unconventional but alluring ‘heroes’: Byron’s kin down the ages

By Vikas Datta In human affairs, things exist before they are formally named and continue to thrive even when people…

7 years ago

Rajnath chairs security meet with five CMs, hikes border development funding

Gangtok, May 20 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday chaired the first security review meeting with Chief Ministers…

7 years ago

Manifestos indicate future tense for Great Britain

By Anasudhin Azeez The ruling Conservatives, opposition Labour and Liberal Democrats have unveiled their manifestos for the 2017 general elections.…

7 years ago

Tughlaqabad gas leak: Many unanswered questions

By K.S. Jayaraman Bengaluru, May 20 (IANS) Has the horrific Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, considered the world's worst industrial…

7 years ago

Three years of Modi: Possibility of 2nd innings looms large

By Amulya Ganguli Considering that the score line in the last round of assembly elections before Narendra Modi's third anniversary…

7 years ago

Under Trump, a presidency declines, step by remorseless step

By Ashok Easwaran As the US constitution was being drafted in utmost secrecy in 1787, an anxious citizen asked Benjamin…

7 years ago

Hypertension can affect children too, not just adults

By Rajat Arora If you thought hypertension is a condition that affects only the adults and the elderly, you are…

7 years ago

India needs to rethink strategy for the IT sector

By Amit Kapoor The Indian IT industry is at the crossroads. It first suffered the long-expected shock of the Trump…

7 years ago

As TN farm crisis grows, record national harvest predicted

By Vipul Vivek As the impact of the worst northeast monsoon in 140 years unfolds across Tamil Nadu, farmers sowed…

7 years ago

No legal verdict can resolve Ayodhya dispute

By M. Rajaque Rahman With the Supreme Court refusing to fast-track it and pushing for out-of-court negotiations, it is evident…

7 years ago

More than 1 mn TB patients lack adequate nutrition

By Charu Bahri Mt Abu/Abu Road: One look at Puni Garasia, 14, was all it took Ashok Dave, a doctor…

7 years ago

Britain stuck in time warp as elections near

By Anasudhin Azeez The United Kingdom is just four weeks away from electing a new parliament. Both the ruling Conservatives…

7 years ago

Fair is foul and foul is fair in Syria

By Saeed Naqvi Like Henry Kissinger, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman belongs to a growing tribe of strategists…

7 years ago

Kashmir could turn out to be Modi’s biggest failure

By Amulya Ganguli There is little doubt that notwithstanding any achievement of Narendra Modi in the economic field or in…

7 years ago

Focus on Q results, not long-term growth has created India’s NPA conundrum

By Amit Kapoor India's NPA problem has a flip side to it: the issue of rising corporate debts. The IMF,…

7 years ago

To expand footprint, BJP now looks to ‘blood bonds’

By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, May 6 (IANS) Blood is certainly thicker than everything else. But now, as the Bharatiya Janata…

7 years ago

Is global establishment in for surprise in France too?

By Saeed Naqvi Accustomed either to isolation or global dominance, the United States has in recent years been playing a…

7 years ago

Thanks to climate change, French presidential hopeful Macron reverses history

By Rajendra Shende On June 15, 1947, the New York Herald Tribune ran a headline that said "Joliot-Curie Rips America…

7 years ago

Sonia’s unifying role is unlikely to succeed

By Amulya Ganguli As in 2004, Sonia Gandhi is again trying to stitch together an alliance against the Bharatiya Janata…

7 years ago



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